Ok sounds good then, mostly just wanted to make sure you weren't re-inventing something that already existed :) Do you plan to publish this on the VSCode marketplace?
On Wed, Aug 8, 2018 at 8:38 AM Greg Clayton <clayb...@gmail.com> wrote: > It is a different protocol. The LLDB MI plugin didn't work very well as > was quite flaky when I tested it a while back. Then I grabbed the CodeLLDB > plugin by Vadim Chugunov and it worked very well. When I looked more > closely at this plugin, it was using a javascript/typescript plug-in to > launch a LLDB instance and then ran a python script that received all of > the javascript packets from the javascript/typescript based plug-in and ran > the debug session. It worked very well and was rock solid stable. So I then > created this plug-in for Nuclide for use at Facebook as they switched all > of the debugging plug-in over to use the VSCode debug adaptor protocols. It > works event better than the CodeLLDB plugin with Visual Studio Code and it > also doesn't stop you from using the python interpreter. The issue I had > with the CodeLLDB is that is uses the python interpreter to run the debug > session thus it isn't available to you as a LLDB user. > > So long story short: our IDE at Facebook uses the VSCode protocol, MI is > clunky and doesn't work that well and was flaky, so this tool was created. > This also provides a really nice way to do remote debugging where the > lldb-vscode is run remotely on other systems. This removes the need for > copying files from a remote host up onto the system that is doing the > debugging. > > Greg > > On Aug 8, 2018, at 8:30 AM, Zachary Turner <ztur...@google.com> wrote: > > How does this differ from VS Code's builtin LLDB MI support? > > On Wed, Aug 8, 2018 at 8:15 AM Pavel Labath via Phabricator < > revi...@reviews.llvm.org> wrote: > >> labath added a comment. >> >> To end things on a positive note: I think the test coverage is pretty >> good (I'm sure somebody will suggest switching to lit), and I think a VS >> code plugin would be a great addition to lldb. >> >> >> https://reviews.llvm.org/D50365 >> >> >> >> >
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